CAN YA SMELL WHAT IT IS YET?

"The subject of this indecent movie was a young girl whom Ben Lewis had been privately tutoring in Maths at her home address. This young girl would sit at the far end of the kitchen with Ben Lewis whilst her mother prepared dinner at the other end of the room.

"Her mother specifically recalls being annoyed as she noticed that this defendant had his iPad and phone with him and was constantly fiddling with one or the other. The film of the young girl that was found on this device concentrates of focusing on her private parts."

Yesterday Lewis, who had spent the equivalent of 14 months in custody on remand and a tagged curfew, received a suspended 24 month jail sentence.

He was arrested after he had given his iPhone and PIN to Sandra Vicente, a member of staff at LL Camps in Bushey, Hertfordshire, so she could play music at a children's party on August 1 last year.

During this time, she clicked on the deleted images folder.

Giving evidence at the trial of Lewis' business partner last month, she said: "I was just nosey. I looked at the deleted items. First I saw children on a beach. They were not wearing anything.

"Then I saw pictures that had been taken in a changing room. I would say they were aged 3 to 4. I felt my brain was polluted. "

Ms Vicente said the next day Lewis, the camp's designated Safeguarding Officer, spoke to her at work.

"He said: 'There is something disgusting on my phone. I don't know how it got there'," she said.

Three days later, she reported Ben Lewis to the police after he came to her with a 3-year-old girl from her group who he said he had found in the toilets and had wet herself.

"At that point I put my foot down. I thought I had to do something. I went home from work and called the police," she said.

Amongst the deleted file on the phone was by a self-recorded image of a completely naked Lewis masturbating in woods, she said.

Mrs Evans said: "The police interrogated all of Ben Lewis's many electronic devices.

"Chat logs, indecent images and videos have been recovered from several of his devices going back a number of years - and found in his room by one of his old laptops was a pair of child's knickers which he tried to explain away as being his brother's, who was 22 at the time of the search. Then he said it was his mother who did the washing."

The iPhone images had been deleted before the phone was seized by the police.

Having spent time in custody, Lewis was yesterday given a suspended sentence at St Albans Crown Court

He had restored it to its factory settings, but registered searches for "indecent images lawyer", "delete iCloud account" and "iPhone deleting recently deleted photos" had been made.

Searches had also been made on an iPod touch which included: "Can a sex offender go to the USA?", "Accidental downloading child porn" and "How do police search computers?"

Chat logs showed conversations between December 2013 and October 2014 involving sexual exploitation and abuse of children.

Two more videos which were graded as indecent were also found on the laptop, dating back to October 2011, and there was a programme used that allowed for the secure deletion of sensitive files.

Lewis, of Borehamwood, admitted 3 counts of making (downloading) indecent images and one of taking indecent images.

Having spent time on remand and on a qualifying curfew meant that Lewis had served the equivalent of a 14 month sentence.

Lewis must register as a sex offender, attend a Community Sex Offender Programme and was banned from working with children and having unsupervised contact with children.

The American-style summer camp, which was run by Lewis and his friend Tal Landsman, was closed down by Ofsted on August 6 last year. A colleague, Tal Landsman, was cleared of charges related to failing to report the discovery of images on Lewis' phone.